Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.